[Facnet-l] Free tours of Turlock Community Gardens + a few available plots + conference

[Julia Sankey]

Hi all:

Free, 1 hour tours of the Turlock Community Gardens (TCG) this academic year for all CSUS students, faculty, staff, and alumns. Winter and spring dates and times have been posted to the TCG website. More dates will be added soon. Consider bringing your class out to the comm garden so they can learn about community gardens, organic gardening, composting, drip irrigation, and sustainable urban agriculture.  Registration is required here: https://www.turlockcommunitygardens.org/csustours


There are a few plots available for rent (10x20'). If interested, let me know. The community garden is at 4105 Crowell Ave (behind the church), 2 blocks north of campus. TCG is a local nonprofit set up to establish community gardens in Turlock. https://www.turlockcommunitygardens.org/


Turlock Community Gardens and CSUS will be co-hosting a conference, Rooting for Change: A Conference on Urban Agriculture in the Central Valley, Saturday March 5, 2022 at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock.

This will be a free, one day conference on urban agriculture. Topics will include: community and school gardens, food waste and composting, organic gardening, urban green space, biodiversity, and urban agriculture as part of the solution to the climate crisis. All welcome! Registration is required (below). Conference will be limited to 100 people.

Morning: Lectures, small discussion groups, and poster sessions.
Afternoon: Field trips to local community and school gardens.
Hosted by: Turlock Community Gardens and California State University Stanislaus
Location: Carnegie Arts Center, Turlock, CA.

https://www.turlockcommunitygardens.org/conference

We would love to have you attend, participate, and even help out by leading tours, giving presentations, or many other activities. If you have any questions or suggestions or want to help out, please email co-host, Alex Tagge: atagge at csustan.edu<mailto:atagge at csustan.edu>.


Thanks!

Julia


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Julia T. Sankey, Ph.D.
Professor, Paleobiology/Geology
Sustainability Faculty Fellow, Council for Sustainable Futures
California State University, Stanislaus, Turlock, CA
209-667-3090; JSankey at csustan.edu
https://www.csustan.edu/geology/sankey

Turlock Community Gardens:
https://www.turlockcommunitygardens.org/

https://www.facebook.com/TurlockCommunityGardens




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